As German composer Hans Zimmer recounted in the Reelblend podcast, it was by listening to him play his score that Christopher Nolan made the decision to make “Interstellar”.
From Batman Begins to Dunkirk via Inception and The Dark Knight, the famous German maestro Hans Zimmer has long remained the favorite composer of British filmmaker Christopher Nolan.
Even if he recently offered the services of Ludwig Göransson for his last two feature films (Tenet and Oppenheimer), it is in fact Zimmer’s baton that Nolan has long trusted to musically dress his feature films. Also famous for having signed the scores of Pirates of the Caribbean, Gladiator and The Lion King, the composer also designed from scratch the masterful soundtrack for Interstellar, considered by AlloCiné spectators as the best science film. fiction of all time.
Released in 2014, led by Matthew McConaughey, astronaut Cooper’s space and time epic undoubtedly marks the culmination of the collaboration between Nolan and Zimmer. As the composer revealed in the Reelblend podcast in November 2021, it was while listening to a piece of music composed by him that the filmmaker made the decision to embark on this new adventure.
“It goes back to Christopher Nolan and Interstellar”declared Hans Zimmer, while he was talking about the fateful and often delicate moment when he introduced film music to a director.
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“Chris had asked me to write a piece of music before he had even written the script. So I played it for him [ce morceau] without looking at him. He was sitting on this couch you see behind me. So I wasn’t facing him, I got to the end of the piece and asked him, ‘So, what do you think?’ He just leaned back and said, ‘Hmm, I think it’s in my best interest to make this movie.’ And I asked him, ‘What is this movie?’ Because he never told me what it was.”
These are the first notes of the captivating and majestic score of Interstellar that Hans Zimmer composed that day, thus unknowingly beginning one of his most beautiful works, and the music of a film that counts today among the monuments of science fiction.
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